Olivet Community Schools
public school district in Olivet, Michigan
Olivet Community Schools is a public school district in Michigan. In Eaton County, it serves Olivet, Walton Township, and parts of the townships of Bellevue, Brookfield, Carmel, and Kalamo In Calhoun County, it serves parts of the townships of Clarence, Convis, and Lee.
History
The former Olivet High School was built in 1922. It originally contained all grades in the district. It was remodeled into apartments around 1996.
A new elementary school was built in late 1958. It was named after Fern Persons, a long-serving elementary principal, in 1964.
Olivet Middle School was built in 1972, and it became the middle/high school in 1993. The architect was Vander Meiden Koteles and Associates of Grand Haven, Michigan. The auditorium was built around 2005.
“Olivet Community Schools” enters the record as public school district in Olivet, Michigan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Olivet, Community and Schools can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7087998. Authority coordinates are 42.447, -84.917. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1922, 1996, 1958 and 1964.
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